Black women writers and the American neo-slave narrative : femininity unfettered

Black women writers and the American neo-slave narrative : femininity unfettered / Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu.

The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history f...

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Main Author: Beaulieu, Elizabeth Ann
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series:Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 192.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American > History and criticism.
African American women > Intellectual life.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Slavery, freedom, Jubilee : reclaiming, repositioning, and revaluing the American slave narrative
  • "Cause I can" : race, gender, and power in Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose
  • The politics of gender in Toni Morrison's Beloved : if "a man ain't nothing but a man," then what is a woman?
  • Myth-making, myth-breaking : "Such a thing ... to marvel over" in J. California Cooper's Family
  • "So many relatives" : twentieth-century women meet their pasts
  • "Children of those who chose to survive" : neo-slave narrative authors create women of resistance.

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